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City of Harare launches crackdown on business by-laws compliance
The City of Harare has initiated a rigorous enforcement campaign to ensure all businesses operating within the Central Business District (CBD), industrial areas, and suburbs fully comply with relevant...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:29hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
It's time for political gimmicks
As we draw near the 2023 elections we have so far witnessed the propaganda mill machines conveying cheap political gimmicks for example the recently launc...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Leonard Koni
Council sues 400 defaulters per month
NEARLY 400 people are sued monthly by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and some end up having their property auctioned by the Messenger of Court after failing to settle their debts. Last Friday...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls in massive water disconnections
VICTORIA Falls Municipality has embarked on a massive water disconnection exercise in violation of a recent High Court ruling that such action is illegal without a court order.Hundreds of Vict...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe water crisis - The background
In the pre Independence era the Town planning authorities and Central Government planned that each City/Town should have roughly 3 years supply in storage at any one point in time. At that time with p...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 14:41hrs | | by Eddie Cross
BCC sues company over outstanding rates
Bulawayo City Council is suing Elnir Agencies (Pvt) Limited over outstanding rates of over $46 000.The summons read:"The plaintiff's claim is against ...Published: 24 Dec 2016 at 04:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Egodini shopping mall - latest
THE Bulawayo City Council has begun compensating property owners within the Egodini area to pave way for the construction of a multi-million dollar mall.According to local media, the $60 m...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo constituency goes dry for two weeks
Villagers in Sipepa business centre in Tsholotsho have gone for two weeks without water following the breakdown of one of the pumps, exposing villagers to diseases.Villagers and business peop...Published: 14 Jul 2015 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gono's response to land allegations - Full text
Here is Gono's response in full to media reports that he will be investigated for owning vast tracts of land in Bulawayo.1. Recent media reports emanati...Published: 01 Jan 2015 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Schools collapse as council cancels school fees payments
Primary and Secondary schools under the auspices of the Nkayi Rural District Council are facing severe operational problems as a result of the local authority's decision to cancel all outstanding ...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 15:02hrs | 3 | by Bhebhe Mandla
Chombo directive continues to haunt BCC
Bulawayo City Council lost more than $90 000 in legal fees following the directive by government for all local authorities to write off debt owed by residents.The local authority cancelled $46...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 13:39hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Zanu-PF directive backfires
THE Zanu-PF move directing local authorities to scrap outstanding rates in the run-up to the July 31 polls has backfired with Harare City Council (HCC) disclosing that it has accumulated debts total...Published: 29 Oct 2013 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF's populist policies will destroy local authorities'
FORMER local government deputy minister, Sesel Zvidzai says the new Zanu-PF government was likely to destroy the local and urban authorities because of its populist policies.Zvidzai, a senior ...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our enemy is the system which sustains tyranny
This call for democracy must be unlike all other calls because the time is up. It must not be sporadic. It must not be a flame of popular discontent, arising in a day and dying down in a day. Th...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 12:45hrs | | by Tendai Hamadziripi Kwari
Government debt cripples BCC operations
Government departments owe the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) close to $4million in outstanding rates payments dating back from last December.A report by the BCC Finance and Development Committee...Published: 14 Apr 2012 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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